The Poplars, Badsey

Click on the image above to see this road on the Worcestershire County Council GIS website with the digitised historical maps. Click on the image below to view the original enclosure map.

Photos taken 2006. Aerial photos: a7224 a7225

THE POPLARS

The Poplars was built in 1966 as a private housing development. It comprises five pairs of semi-detached bungalows and one detached bungalow (numbers 1-12 but no number 11). Here are details about the planning application for The Poplars (link to be added).

The road is named after the house of the same name, a substantial Georgian building which, together with its old barn, was demolished in 1966 in order to make the access road to the new Seward Road development.

The house called 'The Poplars'

Poplar's Garage, High Street, Badsey

South side – 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 (Badsey Map G023 and G022)

The bungalows are all sited on a plot of land which, in 1812, at the time of the Badsey Enclosure Act, was an old enclosure which belonged to Thomas Byrd. It was part of the garden of his house (The Poplars, demolished in the 1960s) and homestead and amounted to 1a 3r 12p. For the bungalows built on the south side of the road, the southern part and back gardens are situated on land which was the Bakehouse Orchard, also belonging to Thomas Byrd, and amounted to 0a 0r 27p. The house and land were bought by Horace Wheatley in the early 20^th century and remained in the Wheatley family until the 1960s when it was sold for development.

See article Cider Mill & The Alley.